Etymology

brickle

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Today it means: To fail spectacularly. Full definition →

Middle English brikel ← Old English *bryċel
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brickle · adjective1

  1. Old English · inherited from*bryċel
  2. Middle English · inherited frombrikel
  3. English todaybrickle

From Middle English brikel, brekil, brukel (“easily broken or shattered”), from Old English *bryċel, *brucol (as in hūsbryċel (“burglarious”, literally “house-breaking”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “ship-breaking”), equivalent to break + -le. See also breakle.

brickle · verb2

From the Bricklin, a failed automobile.

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